Buy, Scan, Destroy: AI Firms Are Shredding Millions of Books to Train Their Chatbots
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Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Following 404 Media’s reporting that book database company ISBNdb claimed to source printed books to then sell to AI companies for AI training, the company deleted the part of its website offering the service and walked back claims that it would train AI models, and instead called it “a test of market interest.” On July 30, nine days after 404 Media’s reporting, ISBNdb added a note to its homepage and an update on its news page about the change.…
The Economic Times
Times of IndiaBuy, scan, destroy: AI firms are shredding millions of books to train their chatbots
AI companies are buying, cutting apart and scanning millions of physical books to train chatbots, according to a Washington Post report based on newly unsealed court filings. The documents reveal Anthropic's secret "Project Panama" and shed light on similar book-acquisition efforts by Meta, OpenAI and Google, as the AI industry's race for high-quality training data fuels an escalating copyright battle.
Anthropic has just paid $1.5 billion in reparations for violating copyright law in the United States, after acquiring nearly 500,000 works from pirate libraries. But the American company continues to drive its model of artificial intelligence through the acquisition of millions of books, which it then destroys legally. It is the record of the procedure that revealed this vast enterprise of destruction of works.
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Technology in BusinessAI Companies Are Destroying Rare Physical Books To Feed Their Chatbots
AI companies are destroying millions of physical books to train their AI models. This is not for recycling. This is to facilitate regurgitation and to feed to AI chatbots that will process these pages. Watch this video where Hem Kaur Saroya explains why this commodification and destruction of rare physical books should worry us. Hem Kaur Saroya tells you on Vantage on Firstpost. 00:00 – Introduction: The Destruction of Physical Books 00:38 – How…
Today In Dystopia: eBay CIA Gangstalkers, Shredding Rare Books To Train AI
Reading by Tim Foley:Subscribe nowToday in dystopia, billionaire corporations and plutocrats can hire trained CIA operatives to psychologically terrorize ordinary citizens who criticize them.E-commerce giant eBay has just agreed to pay $56 million to settle a lawsuit for damages caused by the company’s shockingly aggressive gangstalking operation against a Massachusetts couple who criticized the company’s wealthy executives on their private webs…
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